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• Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 266...
• Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 32...
• To err is human, to forgive divine.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 325...
• For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 66...
• Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 190...
• A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 156...
• All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 358...
• Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 126...
• Most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 59...